Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
ADA LEVERSONIt is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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Fog and hypocrisy – that is to say, shadow, convention, decency – these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
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Since in a crisis they are usually dense, fatally doing the wrong thing. It is hardly too much to say that most domestic tragedies are caused by the feminine intuition of men and the want of it in women.
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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition – only to his getting it.
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All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.
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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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When I see a cheerful young man shrieking about how full of life he is, banging on a drum, and blowing on a tin trumpet, and speaking of his good spirits
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Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin,
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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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Modesty is a valuable merit … in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.
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Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it’s followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.
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There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.
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When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
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